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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/26/2008 9:29:43 PM   
pompack


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ORIGINAL: crsutton

I am 53. My first wargame was Avalon Hills Tactics II.
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I too began with Tactics II. Since that was 1958 that means I have been practicing waiting for AE for 50 years now

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/26/2008 10:18:34 PM   
Zakhal


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Status: offline 		I bought my first wargames when I was like 10-12 yo. War in the west for C64 tape was my favorite. The pacific war I bought as soon as I read the review back in 1992(?). I was like 14yo back then. It was one of the most amazing games I had ever seen and it fitted into a single disk - I still own it.

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/26/2008 10:21:04 PM   
Zakhal


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ORIGINAL: dennishe
I'll bet you lied. Either you are not a woman or you are not 53. Would find it hard to believe that both are true...


On another board on of the oldest players is a woman of 60-70 age. Her favs include rpgs and games like diablo. And she has played strategy games too and says this about them:

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Some people take anti-depressants or rely on their faith to overcome anxiety. For me, nothing works as well as a procedural, non-emotionally involving type of game. In fact for years strategy gaming helped keep me from dwelling on and over-reacting to some difficult personal situations by totally immersing me in a brain activity I rarely use--non-emotional,non-hormonal and neutral thought. I don't know if this is a gender thing or not.


< Message edited by Zakhal -- 8/26/2008 10:23:45 PM >

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/26/2008 11:11:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		A 22 year old college student checking in, I've been wargaming sence high school and I had I known about this game in 2004 I proably would have bought it. 

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/27/2008 1:05:27 AM   
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She still has issues with my gaming, but has given up nagging, I reckon.

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/27/2008 2:29:39 AM   
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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/27/2008 2:30:54 AM   
mbatch729


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ORIGINAL: Lockmart Lawndart

A 22 year old college student checking in, I've been wargaming sence high school and I had I known about this game in 2004 I proably would have bought it. 

Yeah, but you would no longer be a college student!!! This game can eat up all your free time, and some that isn't. Anybody else multitask while on conference calls at work???

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/27/2008 2:31:30 AM   
mbatch729


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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/27/2008 3:08:07 AM   
Big B

 

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ORIGINAL: TheElf


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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Just turned 35, been playing and working on the damn thing for 3 years.

Man, you're old...


My-God TheElf - Old??! Do they let Babies lead Naval Air Squadrons these days!? I'd ask your age - but that must be classified
(hint- when I got out of H.S., Vietnam was still very much going on...and M-16's were still 'new' - I aint old!)

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/27/2008 3:16:11 AM   
khyberbill


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Status: offline 		My first wargame was also Tactics II, in 1963. Also around that time I had Risk and Diplomacy. We played Diplomacy and Risk the most though. My first computer war game was the Ancient Art of War (and the follow on, War at Sea)then Kampfgruppe, followed by Mech Brigade.

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/28/2008 5:22:03 AM   
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ORIGINAL: John 3rd

42 and my first true strategy game love was Avalon Hill's Flattop.




Danged Johnny-come-lately...

I fell in love with Flattop when it was still owned/sold by Battleline Games. I actually have two copies - one is the original Battleline version and the other is the newer Avalon Hill version. It's still my favorite board wargame...

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/28/2008 6:31:18 PM   
tigercat

 

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Status: offline 		43 and it aint the age but the milage that matters. Got WITP as a board game from SPI and set it up got to almost JUL 43 once. Can not wait to grow old with AE !!!!

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/28/2008 6:51:00 PM   
PeteG662


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Status: offline 		46 with years of AH and SPI games. UV and WitP player since the beginning.

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/28/2008 8:45:07 PM   
PzB74


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Status: offline 		33, ticking towards 34....been almost 4 years since I started my first WitP pbem game and it's just reaching its conclusion


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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/28/2008 10:02:48 PM   
rockmedic109

 

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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/28/2008 10:04:27 PM   
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RE: am i the youngest witp player? - 8/29/2008 1:08:58 AM   
Kull


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ORIGINAL: PzB

33, ticking towards 34....been almost 4 years since I started my first WitP pbem game and it's just reaching its conclusion



Possibly one of the most astounding facts of all time. The new super collider could find completely unimagined particles, and inside i'll be thinking "whatever, let's see it play a WitP PBEM through to conclusion"

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